Day: October 12, 2018

Jennifer Leigh Warner/Getty ImagesJennifer Leigh Warner/Getty ImagesHer name is Bear 409—Beadnose to her fans—and she had been crowned Katmai National Park’s Fattest Bear of 2018. On Tuesday, she edged out her competition, Bear 747—an ursidae so rutund his belly nearly scrapes the ground—by 4,000 votes in an online competition. GIFs of her impressive transformation from…

Ryan Gosling stars as Neil Armstrong in First Man.Universal StudiosRyan Gosling stars as Neil Armstrong in First Man.Universal StudiosFirst Man is a rare bird. It’s a big, adventure movie that goes from the flats of the Mojave Desert to the surface of the moon; and it’s a deft, thoughtful film about overcoming grief. It’s got…

For WIRED’s 25th anniversary issue, I wanted the portraits to be lively and fun and real. We were going to shoot 50 photographs—25 WIRED icons and the 25 people they think will shape the next 25 years, and I had my heart set on hiring a street photographer to shoot all 50. I first encountered…

A Russian-speaking grey-hat hacker is breaking into people’s MikroTik routers and patching devices so they can’t be abused by cryptojackers, botnet herders, or other cyber-criminals, ZDNet has learned.The hacker, who goes by the name of Alexey and says he works as a server administrator, claims to have disinfected over 100,000 MikroTik routers already.Alexey has not…

There have been two main changes in dietary habits from the 1970s (before the obesity epidemic) until today. First, there was the change is what we were recommended to eat. Prior to 1970, there was no official government sanctioned dietary advice. You ate what your mother told you to eat. With the publication of the…

‘These foundations [of mathematics] are, moreover, a perpetual source of reflection and discovery for the masters of the science. Even in number system you will find material for long reflection. Remember that Leibniz did not disdain to occupy himself with it.’ – Paul Valéry, letter to Pierre Honnorat, 1942There are almost too many examples of…

Apple has quietly been putting considerable effort into building faster and more efficient chips that can help differentiate its hardware from the rest of the consumer electronics pack, and today it’s taking its next (and possibly largest) step in that strategy. Apple is paying $300 million in cash to buy a portion of Dialog Semiconductor,…

one small film for a man — We kick off a new video series by looking at the most unknowable man in the astronaut corps. Lee Hutchinson – Oct 12, 2018 4:55 pm UTC What First Man tells you about Neil Armstrong—and what it doesn’t. Video shot and edited by Justin Wolfson. (Transcript coming shortly; we…